Email

Yahoo's e-mail crashed yesterday. Thousands of users didn't have access to their emails for hours. It is not clear what the cause of the problem is.

"You may not be able to access some of our services, including email. Our main priority right now is to resolve the issue. We appreciate your patience," a Yahoo customer service team said.

The false bomb signals received today from airports and the media in Bulgaria are part of an international scheme. A similar series of messages were sent to other EU countries, the Interior Ministry said. This happened in the same order as in Bulgaria - first at the airports, then at the media.

The bomb threat emails to airports and media in Bulgaria were sent by providers from Switzerland and Seychelles, the Chief Directorate for Combatting Organised Crime (CDCOC) said on August 22. A day earlier, such emails were sent to institutions in several other European countries and in Vancouver, Canada, reports BNT. 

$ 28,000 were lost by a Bulgarian company because of a break in its email. The hackers hit their business partners in China first. Then created identical to their bank account. Thus, the company translates money, but they went to the fraudsters.

Alleged serial killer Nikos Metaxas has been remanded in custody for eight more days, as police investigators are looking into a new email address linked to the case.

The cyber crime unit of the Greek Police (ELAS) on Tuesday launched an investigation into several fraudulent emails received by members of the public and with ELAS Police Headquarters as the purported sender.

Facebook Inc. announced that a security incident that has exposed a number of Instagram passwords to internal risk was significantly worse than initial expectations, reported Econ.bg

Google is advising internet users to take online security more seriously as a study it commissioned on the occasion of Safer Internet Day (SID) on Tuesday showed that one in 10 Greek internet users has fallen victim to online scams.

According to the YouGov study, one in six Greeks are concerned about the security of their online banking information.

By statistics of the Cyber Crime Specialty Department at Bulgaria's General Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime (GDBOP), the number of fake sites increases more than 10 times before major holidays, as are the upcoming ones.

False web pages are built in several languages, both for greater credibility and for widening the scope of the criminal activity.

Cyprus's police cybercrime unit is warning the public of a money extortion scheme, following complaints from people who recently received threatening emails.